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Umm it should concern everyone if FBI, a law enforcement agency with sweeping power, invades a journalist or a private individual’s house. This sort of normaliz

Umm it should concern everyone if FBI, a law enforcement agency with sweeping power, invades a journalist or a private individual’s house. This sort of normalization of FBI raids to individual citizens is bad for individual and civil liberties, the number of such raids have disproportionately grown over last decade. FBI is an agency known for broad abuse of power and the last thing we need is politicization and sweeping normalization of their abusive behaviours. Even as recent as July, a judge questioned their tactic of raiding a defendants hous instead of just asking them to turn themselves https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2022/07/15/judge-questions-feds-tactics-in-navarro-arrest-00046085 https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2022/07/15/judge-questions... If anything we need more oversight from media, not less. FBI is known to bypass any scrutiny like FISA warrants and rubber stamp things as they wish.

WoahNoun 4y ago
FBI only has the power because a judge signed the search warrant. Hold the judges accountable.
- badRNG 4y ago
  A judge's signature is a necessary but insufficient part of such raids. It is absolutely reasonable to hold an agency with a troubled past accountable, regardless of which judge rubber stamps the raids. Hold judges accountable, sure, but the spotlight should be on the agency.
- Jtype 4y ago
  The FBI has been known to misrepresent information to judges to obtain warrants. It's not the judges that are exceeding their authority.
dang 4y ago
You've been using HN primarily—in fact exclusively, it seems—for ideological and political battle. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of their politics. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. Since we already asked you to stop and you haven't, I've banned the account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
- redditmod2 4y ago
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  - dang 4y ago
    > Dang just banned someone for the wrongthink of questioning the authoritarian police state Actually I just banned them for using HN exclusively for ideological battle, which is clearly against the rules for what ought to be obvious reasons to anyone who's read them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Bit of a feat to pull "authoritarian police state" out of that, but the internet can do anything.

WoahNoun 4y ago

FBI only has the power because a judge signed the search warrant. Hold the judges accountable.

badRNG 4y ago
A judge's signature is a necessary but insufficient part of such raids. It is absolutely reasonable to hold an agency with a troubled past accountable, regardless of which judge rubber stamps the raids. Hold judges accountable, sure, but the spotlight should be on the agency.
Jtype 4y ago
The FBI has been known to misrepresent information to judges to obtain warrants. It's not the judges that are exceeding their authority.

dang 4y ago

You've been using HN primarily—in fact exclusively, it seems—for ideological and political battle. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of their politics. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. Since we already asked you to stop and you haven't, I've banned the account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

redditmod2 4y ago
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- dang 4y ago
  > Dang just banned someone for the wrongthink of questioning the authoritarian police state Actually I just banned them for using HN exclusively for ideological battle, which is clearly against the rules for what ought to be obvious reasons to anyone who's read them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Bit of a feat to pull "authoritarian police state" out of that, but the internet can do anything.